In-cylinder fuel injection internal-combustion engine

• US 20050150478A1
• Filed: 12/29/2004
• Published: 07/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Nomura, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 7,021,280 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 123/305
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 17/005 having direct injection in the combustion chamber
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 2023/103 the injector having a multi-hole nozzle for generating multiple sprays
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 2023/106 Tumble flow, i.e. the axis of rotation of the main charge flow motion is horizontal
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 23/101 the injector being placed on or close to the cylinder centre axis, e.g. with mixture formation using spray guided concepts
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 23/104 the injector being placed on a side position of the cylinder
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 61/184 Discharge orifices having non circular sections
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 69/045 for injecting into the combustion chamber F02M69/046 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

A fuel injection valve that directly injects a fuel into a combustion chamber from a rim of a cylinder toward a center line of the cylinder in a slanting direction toward a lower portion of the combustion chamber, an ignition plug that is arranged at substantially a center of the cylinder, and injection openings from which a spray that forms a shape that widens toward an end from a portion near a center of the combustion chamber toward a side wall of the combustion chamber on a cross-section perpendicular to a direction of injection is injected are included.

Claims

1. An in-cylinder fuel injection internal-combustion engine comprising:

a combustion chamber with a cylinder;

a fuel injection valve that directly injects a fuel toward a center line of the cylinder from a direction that makes an angle with the center line of the cylinder; and

an ignition plug that is arranged substantially at a vertex of the cylinder, wherein

the fuel injection valve includes an injection opening that is arranged at a tip of the fuel injection valve, and from which a spray is injected in such a manner that the spray has a shape in substantially a V-shape that gradually widens toward an end in directions from a portion closer to the ignition plug to portions closer to a surface of a side wall of the combustion chamber, the shape formed on a cross-section perpendicular to a direction of injection.

2. The in-cylinder fuel injection internal-combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein

a width of the shape is narrow at the portion closer to the ignition plug, and is wide at the portion closer to the surface of the side wall, and

the injection opening has a shape that is substantially symmetrical with respect to a plane that includes a center axis of the fuel injection valve, and that is in substantially a V-shape that gradually widens toward an end on a cross-section perpendicular to a direction of the injection, and a width of the shape of the injection opening is narrow at the portion closer to the ignition plug, and is wide at the portion closer to the surface of the side wall.

3. The in-cylinder fuel injection internal-combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein

a width of the shape is narrow at the portion closer to the ignition plug, and is wide at the portion closer to the surface of the side wall, and

the injection opening has a shape that is substantially symmetrical with respect to a plane that includes a center axis of the fuel injection valve, and that is in substantially a wedge-shape that gradually narrows from an end on a cross-section perpendicular to a direction of the injection, and a width of the shape of the injection opening is narrow at the portion closer to the ignition plug, and is wide at the portion closer to the surface of the side wall.

4. The in-cylinder fuel injection internal-combustion engine according to claim 2, wherein

the fuel injection valve further includes an opening that is a slit, and that is formed at the tip of the fuel injection valve at a portion along a plane that includes a substantially center axis of the fuel injection valve, the portion in a space inside the shape of the injection opening.

5. The in-cylinder fuel injection internal-combustion engine according to claim 4, wherein

a length of the slit is substantially same as a length of one side of the injection opening.

6. The in-cylinder fuel injection internal-combustion engine according to claim 4, wherein

a length of the slit is shorter than a length of one side of the injection opening.

7. The in-cylinder fuel injection internal-combustion engine according to claim 2, wherein

the fuel injection valve further includes an opening that is substantially circular, and that is formed at the tip of the fuel injection valve at a portion on a plane that includes a substantially center axis of the fuel injection valve, the portion in a space inside the injection opening.

8. The in-cylinder fuel injection internal-combustion engine according to claim 2, wherein

the fuel injection valve further includes an opening that is substantially elliptic, and that is formed at the tip of the fuel injection valve at a portion on a plane that includes a substantially center axis of the fuel injection valve, the portion in a space inside the injection opening.

9. The in-cylinder fuel injection internal-combustion engine according to claim 2, wherein

the fuel injection valve further includes an opening that has a shape of a four sided figure, and that is formed at the tip of the fuel injection valve at a portion on a plane that includes a substantially center axis of the fuel injection valve, the portion in a space inside the injection opening.

10. The in-cylinder fuel injection internal-combustion engine according to claim 2, wherein

the fuel injection valve further includes an opening that is triangular, and that is formed at the tip of the fuel injection valve at a portion on a plane that includes a substantially center axis of the fuel injection valve, the portion in a space inside the injection opening.

11. The in-cylinder fuel injection internal-combustion engine according to claim 7, wherein

the opening is positioned at a narrower portion in the space inside the injection opening.